Does Santa Wrap Your Christmas Presents?

LDlw on 21/12/2019 - 11:16

My wife and I are celebrating our first Christmas as parents and have been discussing how Santa is going to leave presents for our little one.
When i was young, I had a sack that Santa filled with presents.
For my wife, Santa wrapped them and left them under the tree.
We understand that she is too young to understand this concept at the moment, but we cannot agree regardless.
I'd love to hear what you do in your house, what you would do or how things went down when you were a child.

So, does Santa wrap presents?

Poll Options expired

  • 20
    No, that's ridiculous. He puts them in the sack that you left out.
  • 40
    Yes, funny though, his handwriting on the presents is similar to mum/dads.
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  • gooddealmate on 21/12/2019 - 11:31
    +8

    If you and your partner are waiting for Santa to wrap your presents, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    • Dlw on 21/12/2019 - 11:46
      +1

      Yes, thank you I am aware of this. Hence why I'm writing this from the perspective of a new parents…

      • ESEMCE on 21/12/2019 - 12:10
        +3

        Your 1 year old isn't going to know or care. (or, he /she will be more interested in the wrapping than the actual gift)
        Don't bother unless you want to put on a show for others.

  • ozhunter on 21/12/2019 - 11:33
    -1

    When i was young, I had a sack that Santa filled with presents.
    For my wife, Santa wrapped them and left them under the tree.

    In case no one has told you, it wasn't Santa.

  • Muzeeb on 21/12/2019 - 11:40
    +1

    I had a sack that Santa filled with presents.

    Drunk single Uncle Kevin at family Christmas day lunch?

  • cruiserbruiser on 21/12/2019 - 12:02
    +1

    He definitely wraps them

  • Donaldhump on 21/12/2019 - 12:19
    +5

    wrap them up, otherwise wheres the element of suprise,

    look in sack, oh cool 7 toys that i instantly see

  • ozhunter on 21/12/2019 - 12:21
    +4

    My parents wrapped them and left them under the tree. Actually ripping the wrapping off(and having those few moments of suspense) was part of the fun.

    My siblings and I were aware that the presents were from out parents. Never had Santa involved.

    • pjetson on 21/12/2019 - 18:05

      Never had Santa involved

      And Santa's sad to hear that…

  • chumlee on 21/12/2019 - 12:36
    +1

    Ease back on the lines of coke this festive season. It will clear your head and allow you to make easy parenting decisions

    • iforgotmysocks on 21/12/2019 - 14:46
      +1

      But then I'd have to face reality

      • ShannonN on 22/12/2019 - 09:43

        But you already have faced reality, you are now a parent?

        Congratulations that your child has survived for a year, I'm sure you are great loving parents and wish you all the best but as someone already said the child is too young to appreciate the extra effort of gift wrapping maybe in a few years they will

  • dylanando on 21/12/2019 - 13:05
    +3

    We’re enjoying our first Christmas with Bub to, I certainly am a believer in wrapping. Best part of Christmas morning for me was the surprise element and ripping through all the paper.

  • spackbace on 21/12/2019 - 13:54
    +3

    Stockings, not sacks
    Presents under the tree are from mum n dad

    • Dean29 on 21/12/2019 - 17:55

      Presents under the tree are from mum n dad

      This is the latest thing with parents having to take credit for buying the presents. Presents are from Mum and dad not Santa. Stupid if you ask me.

      • spackbace on 21/12/2019 - 18:01

        "Having" to take credit? Not really, just making sure the distinction is there. Was the same thing ~30yrs ago when I was a kid, we knew who was responsible for what

  • lette on 21/12/2019 - 14:11
    +3

    Wrap them and put them in a sack? Everyone wins?
    Also..yeah opening the wrapping adds to the Xmas fun.

  • MsBin on 21/12/2019 - 16:12
    +2

    Our wrapping style is determined by age;
    - 1 year olds can’t unwrap and don’t get the idea of things. Maybe do a few for funnsies/insta.
    - 2-4 year olds get bored after unwrapping the first few gifts, so we wrap their main gifts up in a way that is easy for them to open, and put the rest in a sack or stocking. (Favourite gift of the 3y/o last year was her very own, wrapped punnet of blueberries!)
    - 5-10 year olds are all-in on the unwrapping biz. Go nuts!
    - Any kids older than that lose a little of the Christmas ‘magic’ and are happy with a few nicely wrapped larger (aka more expensive!) gifts.
    They do grow up super fast though, so make the most of those holiday memories while you still can!

    • ShannonN on 22/12/2019 - 09:46

      Great plan

  • MickeyRules on 21/12/2019 - 16:24

    we always did unwrapped in the stocking

  • Haplo on 21/12/2019 - 21:34

    Santa wrapped one present for each of us and the rest came from the family. No sacks involved :)

  • Clear on 21/12/2019 - 21:53

    Santa's presents were in a different wrapping to mum and dad. Both were in the stocking or right below if too big.

  • Cliche Guevara on 22/12/2019 - 07:56

    You got it all wrong, Santa doesn't wrap.
    He's just the Uber of Xmas. Think of the elves!

    • Loulouinwonderland on 22/12/2019 - 08:01

      Came here to say this - shocked no one had earlier!

  • Loulouinwonderland on 22/12/2019 - 08:00

    Ummm santa ain't got time to wrap all the presents… it's obviously done by elves.

    My mum always had two lots of wrapping paper - one for our presents and a hidden roll for ones from santa.

    Presents from santa were left in a sack by our bed.

    There has been loads of discussion about this in my due date group - the major consenus there is that santa should bring smaller presents and mum and dad the bigger ones (ie more expensive ones). Basically those less fortunate query why santa doesnt love them as much when they dont get the same expensive gifts :(

  • BertieBrown on 22/12/2019 - 10:11

    Yep. Just remember that Santa uses his own wrapping paper, so obviously presents from parents will be different from the special wrapping paper that Santa uses..

  • Lastchancetosee on 22/12/2019 - 10:53

    When I was growing up, our presents were wrapped and put in a pillow case at the end of the bed.

    For our children, each had a small stocking filled with wrapped chocolate coins and socks/small things, and the stocking went under the tree with the other wrapped presents. Everything was from Santa, but we never made a big deal about it, and none of them were traumatised when they found out he wasn't real.

  • gazzathegreat on 22/12/2019 - 18:31

    I'm with the presents in a pillowcase age group. It was great getting one good present and a bag full of cheap stuff! Presents were wrapped for birthdays only.

  • dins on 22/12/2019 - 21:26

    Santa is not real. He does have a nice beard tho white and fluffy.

  • larndis on 22/12/2019 - 23:22
    +1

    Growing up I always had wrapped presents under the tree from Mum and Dad, and Santa left some small unwrapped gifts in my stocking. We do the same with our kids now. I feel like this is the best of both worlds, and while we take credit for the big presents under the tree my kids get the most excited about seeing what Santa brought.

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